I have yet to meet an Asian in Asia or the US who cares about the moral degeneracy and insanity of the West.
I have read that they are out there but I haven't experienced it.
America is still such as good place for Asian immigrants to make money and buy real estate, the ones here don't bother with the nonsense and in other countries America still owns the brand of freedom and democracy. Maybe part of it is the collapse of the American culture makes it easier for them to get ahead. 90 plus percent of the people who are flooding into the country can't compete with Chinese or Indians. Blacks definitely can't and whites can only compete because of their greater numbers.
I wonder at what point will the perceptions of America start matching the reality. Will it take economic collapse?
Maybe it all comes down to economics. When I lived in mainland China, Chinese told me that they would support the government as long as their lives continued to improve economically. Now under Xi, in global opinion polls, Chinese rate their government as the most responsive to their needs inspite or maybe because it isn't a democracy. People know whom to blame if things don't go well.
On a positive note, Thailand just banned the Future Forward party. It was the US generated and funded one that was being used for regime change. Even if the populace still worships America, many of the elite worldwide are starting to rebel at the thought of being vassals of the increasingly insane and impotent US
Down here in the south, twice in one one week, out of sheer surprise i challenged friends who both were expressing happiness that Kamala Harris was the Democratic candidate in the far off USA. I asked why that was a good thing. Both said that she seems like a nice person, plainly never having heard of her before. I told one young woman she had just been brainwashed, which she immediately denied. To paraphrase the great Mandy Rhys-Davies (look it up under Christine Keeler perhaps - figures from British history) 'Well she would say that, wouldn't she?'
Speaking of Thais, arguably the most famous Thai in the history of the world is Pranpriya Manobal aka Lalisa Manobal aka Lisa aka Lalisa. Her latest track, "New Woman", has racked up over 35 million views in just two days (https://youtu.be/UxXY_hR_wzo). Unusually, for this day and age, there are no men becoming women in the video (directed by Hollywood music video mainstay Dave Meyers) despite the golden opportunity seemingly presented by the song's title. One gets the sense that like most Asians, Lisa makes for a somewhat suboptimal Satanist, since so relatively few in the East take Christianity seriously at all. Still, her new American record label RCA is sure to give it a try.
In addition to her relatively new solo career, Lisa is also lead rapper and dancer for the ludicrously popular K-pop girl-group BLACKPINK (whose videos commonly rack up over 2 billion views on YouTube https://youtu.be/IHNzOHi8sJs), though now that she has become so successful as a solo artist rumours are swirling she may be growing too famous even to remain part of that group.
Last year Lisa caused a scandal by choosing to appear live at Paris' Crazy Horse cabaret club (https://youtu.be/pETk-dTqtiw) as one of the showgirls, more or less fully nude. A few scandalised fans defaulted to saying, essentially, you can take the Thai girl out of Thailand but you can't take Thailand out of the Thai girl. "Of course, she was always a stripper and pole dancer in disguise." Lisa is also a cultural role model for millions of Thai girls who aspire to be just like her.
Lisa at this point seems beyond caring about criticism, as in addition to her own success, her boyfriend is rumoured to be French billionaire Frederick Arnuad.
A few scandalised fans defaulted to saying, essentially, you can take the Thai girl out of Thailand but you can't take Thailand out of the Thai girl. "Of course, she was always a stripper and pole dancer in disguise."
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Why the pejorative slant on Thai girls?
Have you ever spent time in Thailand, or do media driven stereotypes impress your thinking?
Work on your reading comprehension. I don't and never would count myself among the contingent of "scandalised fans" making racist comments about Thais. For the record, I thought it was pretty courageous and admirable how this dancer saw an opportunity to dance and took it despite there being no great financial incentive to do so and the likelihood of inviting a backlash from notoriously puritanical (when it comes to K-pop stars) K-pop fanbase (who also always had problems with her being Thai rather than South Korean).
Here's the full quote: "Though we didn’t argue today, it was still a stressful conversation. Speaking quietly in a monotone, Pale Man never laughs or even looks at you. It takes too much energy to show any emotion. I had to hunch forward and strain to catch anything. Barely audible, he’s a squinting ghost."
There's a local born-and-raised version of the thin, pale man here in Hastings, my small-town adopted home just north of Yonkers. I'm often at the VFW Square to catch a bus and his lunch-time schedule seems to intersect w/ mine. Sitting on a public bench, he smoking and drinking coffee and me w/ one eye out for my ride, our only reliable topic of conversation is the Yankees. They're his team and tho I'm a Mets fan, I follow those hated Bronx Bombers closer than I'd care to because I want to talk to him on occasion. The idea of giving him a cold shoulder just seems wrong. Other locals say he's a burn-out and a tragic figure. We all have past history, even if we don't wear it on our sleeve like this solemn wraith. He doesn't encourage company. But to me he's one of the harmless regulars about town, so deserving of my civic respect.
I have yet to meet an Asian in Asia or the US who cares about the moral degeneracy and insanity of the West.
I have read that they are out there but I haven't experienced it.
America is still such as good place for Asian immigrants to make money and buy real estate, the ones here don't bother with the nonsense and in other countries America still owns the brand of freedom and democracy. Maybe part of it is the collapse of the American culture makes it easier for them to get ahead. 90 plus percent of the people who are flooding into the country can't compete with Chinese or Indians. Blacks definitely can't and whites can only compete because of their greater numbers.
I wonder at what point will the perceptions of America start matching the reality. Will it take economic collapse?
Maybe it all comes down to economics. When I lived in mainland China, Chinese told me that they would support the government as long as their lives continued to improve economically. Now under Xi, in global opinion polls, Chinese rate their government as the most responsive to their needs inspite or maybe because it isn't a democracy. People know whom to blame if things don't go well.
On a positive note, Thailand just banned the Future Forward party. It was the US generated and funded one that was being used for regime change. Even if the populace still worships America, many of the elite worldwide are starting to rebel at the thought of being vassals of the increasingly insane and impotent US
Down here in the south, twice in one one week, out of sheer surprise i challenged friends who both were expressing happiness that Kamala Harris was the Democratic candidate in the far off USA. I asked why that was a good thing. Both said that she seems like a nice person, plainly never having heard of her before. I told one young woman she had just been brainwashed, which she immediately denied. To paraphrase the great Mandy Rhys-Davies (look it up under Christine Keeler perhaps - figures from British history) 'Well she would say that, wouldn't she?'
"This is not a love song, this is not a love song."
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Sing it, Linh ...didn't know you were a fan of PiL 🥂
Hi Irritable Farmer,
It's actually Rammstein quoting PiL:
https://genius.com/Rammstein-amerika-lyrics
Linh
Speaking of Thais, arguably the most famous Thai in the history of the world is Pranpriya Manobal aka Lalisa Manobal aka Lisa aka Lalisa. Her latest track, "New Woman", has racked up over 35 million views in just two days (https://youtu.be/UxXY_hR_wzo). Unusually, for this day and age, there are no men becoming women in the video (directed by Hollywood music video mainstay Dave Meyers) despite the golden opportunity seemingly presented by the song's title. One gets the sense that like most Asians, Lisa makes for a somewhat suboptimal Satanist, since so relatively few in the East take Christianity seriously at all. Still, her new American record label RCA is sure to give it a try.
In addition to her relatively new solo career, Lisa is also lead rapper and dancer for the ludicrously popular K-pop girl-group BLACKPINK (whose videos commonly rack up over 2 billion views on YouTube https://youtu.be/IHNzOHi8sJs), though now that she has become so successful as a solo artist rumours are swirling she may be growing too famous even to remain part of that group.
Last year Lisa caused a scandal by choosing to appear live at Paris' Crazy Horse cabaret club (https://youtu.be/pETk-dTqtiw) as one of the showgirls, more or less fully nude. A few scandalised fans defaulted to saying, essentially, you can take the Thai girl out of Thailand but you can't take Thailand out of the Thai girl. "Of course, she was always a stripper and pole dancer in disguise." Lisa is also a cultural role model for millions of Thai girls who aspire to be just like her.
Lisa at this point seems beyond caring about criticism, as in addition to her own success, her boyfriend is rumoured to be French billionaire Frederick Arnuad.
A few scandalised fans defaulted to saying, essentially, you can take the Thai girl out of Thailand but you can't take Thailand out of the Thai girl. "Of course, she was always a stripper and pole dancer in disguise."
__
Why the pejorative slant on Thai girls?
Have you ever spent time in Thailand, or do media driven stereotypes impress your thinking?
Work on your reading comprehension. I don't and never would count myself among the contingent of "scandalised fans" making racist comments about Thais. For the record, I thought it was pretty courageous and admirable how this dancer saw an opportunity to dance and took it despite there being no great financial incentive to do so and the likelihood of inviting a backlash from notoriously puritanical (when it comes to K-pop stars) K-pop fanbase (who also always had problems with her being Thai rather than South Korean).
Here's the full quote: "Though we didn’t argue today, it was still a stressful conversation. Speaking quietly in a monotone, Pale Man never laughs or even looks at you. It takes too much energy to show any emotion. I had to hunch forward and strain to catch anything. Barely audible, he’s a squinting ghost."
There's a local born-and-raised version of the thin, pale man here in Hastings, my small-town adopted home just north of Yonkers. I'm often at the VFW Square to catch a bus and his lunch-time schedule seems to intersect w/ mine. Sitting on a public bench, he smoking and drinking coffee and me w/ one eye out for my ride, our only reliable topic of conversation is the Yankees. They're his team and tho I'm a Mets fan, I follow those hated Bronx Bombers closer than I'd care to because I want to talk to him on occasion. The idea of giving him a cold shoulder just seems wrong. Other locals say he's a burn-out and a tragic figure. We all have past history, even if we don't wear it on our sleeve like this solemn wraith. He doesn't encourage company. But to me he's one of the harmless regulars about town, so deserving of my civic respect.